Word count tracker for EllipsusYou write in Ellipsus. Falcontext checks it, and fixes the slips right there.

The Ellipsus word count shows the document. Falcontext sits beside it and keeps track of your days: today’s words, the goal you set, your streak and a finish date. Neither uses generative AI on your writing.

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How to see the Ellipsus word count.

Ellipsus counts your words for you; here’s how to show it.

  1. Editor settings → Word count

    Open the editor settings (the gear at the top right of the format panel) and switch on Word count. It shows in the editor, except in focus mode.

  2. The Timer

    Click the hourglass at the top of the editor and set a time. When it ends, Ellipsus tells you how many words you added or removed.

  3. Writing Journey: the word count over time

    On a document’s card, the three dots → Information → Writing Journey: its word count, your active writing time, sessions and writing speed.

From Ellipsus’s own help pages, October 2026. What they don’t keep: a daily goal across all your documents, and a streak.

What Falcontext adds to Ellipsus.

Ellipsus gives you a word count

  • A word count in the editor, a timer and a Writing Journey per document
  • Focus mode, spell check in 18 languages, and an outline from your headings
  • With Ellipsus Plus, writing insights of its own: readability, passive voice, adverbs and more, also with no AI

Falcontext adds

  • A daily goal, live. What you add today counts towards your goal for the day and your total, and a finish date keeps pace with you.
  • Writing streaks. How many days in a row you’ve written, with your best day and best sprint kept as records.
  • Counting with the panel closed. Allow write.ellipsus.com in Falcontext’s Settings, and the documents you’ve counted before keep counting with Falcontext closed.
  • Each document, and each draft. A document you start today counts as all today’s. A draft is tracked on its own.
  • Checks written for fiction. prose checks with lines set from published novels, the findings marked in your text: filter words, dialogue tags, tense slips and more.
  • Fix it in Ellipsus. Fix sorts out a straight quote, a “the the” or a double space inside your document, and Ellipsus’s own Ctrl+Z puts it back.
  • Chapters and characters. Bird’s Eye maps your chapters and scenes, and the character tracker shows who appears where.
  • Focus Mode (Pro). Ellipsus’s focus mode plus full screen, with a little badge for today’s words (Ellipsus hides its word count there).

Ellipsus says it will never use generative AI. Falcontext uses no AI at all: Your writing is never sent anywhere, and no AI is used on your writing in any way. How your data is handled.

How to track your daily Ellipsus word count.

A minute, once.

  1. Get Falcontext

    It’s free in the Chrome Web Store (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc) and on Firefox Add-ons, with nothing to sign up for.

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  2. Open your document in Ellipsus

    Any document or draft at write.ellipsus.com.

  3. Click the falcon icon

    The Falcontext panel opens next to your document, counting.

  4. Keep the Ellipsus word count going with Falcontext closed

    Allow write.ellipsus.com when Falcontext offers it, or in its Settings. Then the documents you’ve counted keep counting with Falcontext closed, after a reload too.

Good to know.

  • Drafts: each draft is tracked as a document of its own.
  • Scene breaks: Ellipsus’s divider counts as a scene break, like a line of ***.
  • Fixed something by mistake? Ctrl+Z in Ellipsus (⌘+Z on a Mac) undoes it.
  • Also writing in Google Docs or WordPress? Falcontext counts there too: all editors.

Questions about the Ellipsus word count and Falcontext.

How do I see the word count in Ellipsus?

Switch on Word count in the editor settings, the gear at the top right of the format panel. It shows in the editor, except in focus mode.

Does Falcontext use AI on my Ellipsus documents?

No. Nothing you write leaves your computer, and Falcontext has no AI in it: each check is a rule or a word list, running in your browser.

Ellipsus Plus has writing insights. Why Falcontext too?

Falcontext adds what happens across days: today’s words, a daily goal, streaks and a finish date. The checks were made for novels, with lines measured from published fiction, and some fix the slip for you.

Learn more.

Everything here works in Ellipsus too.

How it works

Goals and progressA daily goal, a total and a finish dateStreaksHow your writing days are countedSprintsA timer for your word countBird’s EyeEvery chapter and scene, mappedCharactersWho appears where, and who’s been goneFocus ModeYour draft full screenAll help pagesEvery feature, one page eachWhere it worksEvery editor, and what each gets

Checks writers start with

Filter wordsFelt, saw, knewTelling emotions“She was angry”Dialogue punctuation“Hello.” she said, or “Hello,”?AdverbsHow many is too manyTense and point of viewSlips out of your book’s tenseHomophonesTheir going, poured overAll the checksFree and Pro

Your next chapter starts today.

Set a goal, open your draft and watch the words add up.

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